It's time for the April 2021 Insecure Writer's Support Group post! You can sign up HERE.
Thanks to our host Alex Cavanaugh, and the awesome co-hosts for this month: PK Hrezo, Pat Garcia, SE White, Lisa Buie Collard, and Diane Burton!
April 7 optional question - Are you a risk-taker when writing? Do you try something radically different in style/POV/etc. or add controversial topics to your work?
But to be honest, I'm struggling. I have had a first draft of my next novel for quite some time (a year?) and I know it needs a lot of work and I'm sort of just paralyzed and can't move forward. My characters are static and not moving forward either. I'm even struggling with writing the blurb for which my illustrator has been waiting for for weeks now so that she can finish the back cover.
What the fork, man?!
(for The Good Place fans out there LOL)
(for The Good Place fans out there LOL)
Can this be writer's block?
Any advice is welcome.
Bounce your blurb off some other writers. With DLP, I take the blurb they sent with the query, adjust it, and then send it to the author. We go back and forth many times until it's polished.
ReplyDeleteI have just the group to bounce it off of, but writing the blurb itself is...*sigh*
DeleteI think you are a risk taker quitting your job for a few years to write. Are you in a critique group? Maybe setting some deadlines with them will help you get more writing done. And maybe give yourself permission to just write a small number of words--250--or revise for a short period of time--15 to 30 minutes--will help you get back into your writing. It's helped me to have smaller expectations of myself.
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ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be sorry either. If that was your heart's desire, then great. How many people wish they could do something like that and don't do it.
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DeleteYou are far ahead of me. I have not taken risks in most ways. I have taken risks in career changes but not by actually letting anyone see what I write. Your progress will be an inspiration to me. Thank you.
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